Buck in the backyard

I don`t feed the animals here but nature does. The other night I had a Hoot Owl on the roof. That guy was hooting up a storm! This year there`s been a bumper crop of acorns which has led to an influx of big predatory birds coming in to hunt the squirrel and mice. Just last week there was a Red Hawk in my front yard. He had a squirrel pinned down in his talons. If you listen to the old folks talk around here, we are in for a cold winter based on the huge amount of acorns the trees have produced this year. They believe that nature provides and that the abundance of food is going to be needed by the animals to survive a tough winter.